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Just curious.

Oh, and tab doesn't count.

I could never read music, even back when I played an instrument. I had to memorise the actual notes/positions to play songs.

No.

I are teh musikalness. I specilize in bass clef (TUUUUUUUUBAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!) but I rock. ( I was not aware that there was a neutral, alto and tenor clef, though)

Treble suckas. Baritone/mellophone fo' life!

Back when I played the violin, I used to be able to read music. Those days are over, though.

After 8 years of playing the trumpet, 3 musicals and a stint in a show choir, I damn well better

Yep...mostly playing enough of Sax and Flute taught me this rare skill.

Back when I played the violin I could read notes if
1) It was a simple scale going up or down
2) I spent 5 minutes figuring out what the first note of the scale was

Nowadays I'm completely clueless when it comes to reading notes.

A long time ago, I could. Not anymore, though.

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Funny thing in my school, if you did not opt into band in the fifth grade, that area of life was foreeever barred to you.

Consquently because I wanted to do shop more that year I never learned how to read music (Minus one year of voice, which I remeber nothing off)

Playing an instrument, I can read music, but not nearly fast or well enough to play a song at the ideal tempo the first several times I see it, unless it's something really simple in the key of C.

Singing, I can, but only if the first note is given to me. I can't figure out a note just by hearing it for my life. Of course, there are some harmony parts where I can never remember what notes I am supposed to sing.

Zaia wrote: Oh, and tab doesn't count.

Shoot!
But I used to be able to read music ok, but now im toolazy to....

Treble and Bass cleff I can usually read. The C-cleff variants might take me a second or two of staring at it to get it calibrated in my mind. I do need to work on getting faster at reading everything, though

Yes. Playing them, though, is a different issue. I cannot play it "cold" (playing a song I've never heard before simply by reading the notes). In order to play something, I have to hear the song first.

As a former player of the baritone horn, I can read the bass clef like I can read english. In fact, I have a trumpet which I can use to play music written for the baritone horn, though it sounds decidedly different.

I used to, and fairly decently. Now, I'm basically lost when I look at sheet music. I can't even remember what the little numbers mean anymore, though I think it has to do with tempo.

YT300000 wrote:I used to, and fairly decently. Now, I'm basically lost when I look at sheet music. I can't even remember what the little numbers mean anymore, though I think it has to do with tempo.

You mean numbers like 3/4, 2/4, 4/4, and such? They actually tells you about the ryhtm. 3/4, for instance, says that the music is a waltz. Tempo is indicated by words instead of numbers.

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

YT300000 wrote:I used to, and fairly decently. Now, I'm basically lost when I look at sheet music. I can't even remember what the little numbers mean anymore, though I think it has to do with tempo.

You mean numbers like 3/4, 2/4, 4/4, and such? They actually tells you about the ryhtm. 3/4, for instance, says that the music is a waltz. Tempo is indicated by words instead of numbers.

Top number: How many beats per measure
Bottom number: which subdivision equals the beat.

Example: 6/8: 6 beats per measure, eigth notes are counted as beats.
15/16: 15 beats per measure, 16th notes are counted as beats.

As far as music goes, I am as lacking in skill as I am in talent. I can't read a damn note.

Yes, I can though it might take me a bit of work. Been a few years.

I can read treble and bass clef very well, alto and tenor a little bit (I have to relate everything back to middle C but after a minute I get into the groove), and of course I can read neutral clef 'cause it's easy as pie!

And I can't really read tab.

Zaia wrote: And I can't really read tab.

And I don't think you're missing out on much.

Yes, but oftentimes I have to use my insturment to figure out some of the more difficult parts. I'm probably out of practice.

What's tab?